LEADING SAUDI UNIVERSITY ENHANCES CLASSROOM, LAB AND REMOTE LEARNING EXPERIENCES
As universities across the region invest in digital platforms to support hybrid learning, scalable and cost-efficient infrastructure is becoming critical to student success.
Hosam G Mutir, Systems Engineer at Jeddah
University, tells us how standardising on a virtual desktop environment has improved performance, simplified IT management and delivered significant cost savings. eddah University, one of Saudi
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Arabia’ s newest academic institutions, offers innovative programmes designed to prepare students for leadership roles in the Kingdom’ s evolving job market. Its focus on digital learning underscores the university’ s alignment with Saudi Vision 2030, which aims to establish a digitally driven, knowledge-based economy.
When VDI-related operational costs, inconsistent performance and IT management complexity began to affect students’ remote learning and research lab experiences, the University seized the opportunity to standardise on Nutanix. The deployment not only met performance expectations – it exceeded them – and even outperformed the University’ s ambitious costreduction goals.
Key benefits:
Exceeds Cost Savings Estimates – Reduced TCO by 40 %, surpassing cost reduction stretchtarget of 30 %.
Effortless and Effective Scalability – New VDI machines provisioned in under three minutes, ensuring fast, seamless access to academic resources as student body grows.
Ease of Management – Cut management overhead and operational time by over 45 %, enabling IT to refocus efforts on innovation. said:“ We’ ve seen significant improvements across every key metric – performance, scalability, security, and ease of management. Our students have greatly benefitted and operating costs have been reduced by an incredible 40 %. It’ s truly remarkable.”
Challenge
As one of the most modern Saudi public universities, Jeddah University is pioneering the‘ New Saudi University Mission’. Collaboration, innovation and community impact underpin this initiative, which seeks to deliver a differentiated education through the integration of research and study.
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